Book Bingo NW 2021: BIPOC Food Writing
A staff selection of books for the Summer Book Bingo NW 2021 category: BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color) Food Writing.
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Life Without A Recipe
This memoir continues the story of the author's struggles with cross-cultural values and how they shaped her coming of age and her culinary life, tracing her three marriages, her literary ambitions, and her midlife decision to become a parent. (NoveList)
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Decolonize your Diet
More than just a cookbook, Decolonize Your Diet redefines what is meant by "traditional" Mexican food by reaching back through hundreds of years of history to reclaim heritage crops as a source of protection from modern diseases. (Publisher's copy)
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Eat A Peach
The star of Ugly Delicious traces his upbringing as a youngest son in a deeply religious Korean-American family, his search for identity, his struggles with manic depression and his unlikely rise as one of his generation’s most influential chefs. (NoveList)
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Tawâw
First Nations chef Chartrand (Cree) draws from his Indigenous roots as well as French and Asian culinary traditions in this beautifully designed cookbook featuring essays on Native culture alongside mouthwatering recipes.
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Chaat
Chef and Chopped judge Chauhan partners with food writer Eddy to reminisce on their travels via India's vast railway system, where food and beverage carts and markets offer passengers a quick bite or a drink. (Publishers Weekly)
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Eating Wildly
Trekking through Central Park and other urban beaten paths and backyards, Chin leads us on a journey of discovery as she searches for the tender shoots poking through cement cracks and hardy wild plants resisting winter's bite. (Publishers Weekly)
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Tastes Like War
Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, Tastes Like War is a hybrid text about a daughter's search through intimate and global history to understand herself and the cultural roots of her mother's mental illness. (NoveList)
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Coconuts & Collards
When her family moved from Puerto Rico to Atlanta, Von Diaz traded plantains, roast pork, and malta for grits, fried chicken, and sweet tea. Brimming with humor and nostalgia, Coconuts and Collards is a recipe-packed memoir of growing up Latina in the Deep South. (NoveList)
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In Bibi's Kitchen
Grandmothers from eight eastern African countries welcome you into their kitchens to share flavorful recipes and stories of family, love, and tradition in this transporting cookbook-meets-travelogue by Hawa Hassan, who grew up in Seattle. (Publisher's copy)
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Love, Loss, and What We Ate
Top Chef host Lakshmi writes about her immigrant childhood and life in front of the camera, tracing her formative experiences in her grandmother's South Indian kitchen and her relationships with people who influenced her culinary skills and career. (NoveList)
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